'This is really happening': Used by NaperParks, MortonArboretum and others, autonomous mowers are becoming more than a novelty
When Ilya Sagalovich and his team unload their riding mowers and turn them loose on Monarch Park in Naperville, it's quickly clear these aren't normal grass cutters.Naperville-based Havenshine Technologies developed the autonomous electric mowers, capable of cutting acres of grassland with little human effort. The Naperville Park District and Morton Arboretum are among the clients currently testing the mowers as interest grows in the burgeoning technology.
"I'm always telling people who can't believe their eyes that this is really happening," said Sagalovich, a software engineer specializing in robotics."We're trying to define what a smart city means." Havenshine's Mean Green mowers are cutting more than 20 acres at three parks. While the rate of $29.80 per acre for the one-year contract is more than the cost of contracting human-operated riding mowers, Quigley still sees the long-term benefit of shifting to autonomous mowers.
The mowers require only one person to keep an eye on them, and that person could trim trees, weed, mulch or complete various other tasks while the grass gets cut. Once the technology advances further, Jacobson said, he envisions the mowers tending to more difficult areas such as the sloped berms along Interstate 88.
Advances in GPS and other technologies allowed the autonomous mowers to be developed relatively quickly. Sagalovich said he designed the prototype in about a year.
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